Four minute Muscle part-1

What can you do with four minutes? If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish quite a bit. You could read several paragraphs of this article, run a mile if you’re world class, or finish up matters with your girlfriend if you’re young, virile, and in a hurry. But if you want to put on some mass and get stronger, our 4 Minute Muscle program will put your timemanagement skills to the ultimate test. The concept behind 4 Minute Muscle is simple yet brutal in its execution. For each exercise in your workout, we want you to crank out as many reps as you can in four minutes. Then you move to another exercise for the same body part and do the same thing. This will fry your muscles in ways you’ve never experienced before while stimulating growth, burning fat, and getting you in the best shape of your life. LONGER IS BETTER Performing as many reps as you can in a certain period is an optimal way to train for muscular strength endurance. This is the ability to perform a task—in this case, moving fairly heavy loads in the gym—repeatedly for long durations with a minimal decrease in muscular efficiency. After following this program for six weeks, your failure threshold, the point at which you simply can’t do another rep, will be significantly higher for each exercise. Training this way improves your strength endurance because working your muscles to failure repeatedly puts them under a great deal of metabolic stress. This creates waste byproducts like lactic acid, which produces that “trapped in quicksand” feeling when you’re about to reach failure. By intentionally training to create these waste products, you teach your body to better handle and dispose of them. That disposal process is how your strength endurance capacity increases. The better your body can do this, the longer you can perform a given movement. And the longer you can go, the more benefits you’ll get from your workouts. SIZE DOES MATTER Strength endurance training, however, isn’t designed solely to help you perform more reps. It also helps you pack on size by creating mechanical stress and causing muscle damage, both of which lead to rapid gains in muscular cross-section. This routine also instigates the release of anabolic hormones, the ones that repair your muscles and help them grow. The program entails dramatically increasing both your training volume and the intensity with which you attack your workouts. Simply put, you’ll train a lot harder than usual. As a result, you’ll burn significantly more calories in each session and continue to burn them once you’re finished. Combined with a sound nutritional program, this will strip fat from your body in record time. And since this is likely a drastic change from your typical training regimen, you’ll experience the added benefit of shocking your muscles into growth. This is the Weider Principle of muscle confusion, and it works.